Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6?

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:00:34AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le mar 09/12/2003 à 08:56, Greg KH a écrit :
> >   A:  That is correct.  If you really require this functionality, then
> >       use devfs.  There is no way that udev can support this, and it
> >       never will.
> 
> That's something I don't understand: I thought that with a well
> configured hotplug+udev system, you'll never have to worry about loading
> drivers on device-node open() because all drivers should be auto-loaded
> and all device-nodes should be auto-created.
> 
> Am I wrong ?

No, you are correct.  That's why I'm not really worried about this, and
I don't think anyone else should be either.

thanks,

greg k-h
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